skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read maybe a dozen books on vipassana meditation (the type usually posted to HN), zen, and mindfulness. The two best practical books on meditation I've read are:

1. The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh

2. Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Gunaratana. This one is free online, though the paid copy is a bit more edited for clarity.

My primary guide is 1. It's concise and provides just the right amount of breathing exercises to help me focus while I "sit." 2 is more comprehensive but I've found it a bit too scattered, with too many tools to help with breathing that I go in circles attempting different ones. Most people I think employ a couple and ignore the rest. 1 is much better written and just a more cohesive book than 2 IMO, but they're both great books and either one alone works well as a guide to meditating.
I'm sure the insurance company was aware of this as well, and charged accordingly.
I added something similar to our framework where we do the encryption server side when a form is generated.
In our token we encrypt a form generation time and captcha question and answer variables. This allows us to easily render on the form a textual or graphical captcha and pass the answer encrypted. The form processing simply decrypts the data and decides one, if a form is too fast or stale based on the difference of the form generation and submit time and two, it compares the captcha answer to that which was passed in the encrypted token.
Does Piki have a different data model from a "regular" wiki, or is it just the UI?
I'm not sure what the estimated failure rate for the falcon 9 rockets were before the most recent launch, but let's assume it was 1 in 27.

So: The insurance company looks at the deal and sees that they have a 1 in 27 chance of having to pay out. Then they ask Orbcomm to pay $10,000,000/27 + profit. Statistically, the insurance company will always win if they make enough deals.

Oh, and I am sure that if NASA offered $1B to anyone who would insure the 50 million tank, there would be an army of takers. ;)
>Anyone who has spent say, >3 hours of their life meditating will recognize it as a fact that meditation strengthens your will.

I've spent hundreds of hours meditating over the last 40 years, and it is far from apparent to me that it strengthened my will.
Also, it is allowed in the ICMP standard, that a device can respond if it is pinged directly and also if its subnet broadcast address is pinged.
Ask HN: How are your friends making money online?
Most of my friends that are making consistent money are building websites and/or offering SEO and marketing services. Very few are building anything new or unique.

Thoughts?
Exceptions to patent rights?

I'm more familiar with copyright statute, but I still have no awareness of "fair use" exemptions to patent rights.

There are proposals for such a thing. At present, they're just that. http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2005/03/index.html
IMHO, you should start by offering to host the paper native source (whether latex or doc - I'm not a huge fan of PDF, especially when A4 printing issues arise)

Then, putting the matching data online would be a worthy 2nd step.

I have a "long term project" to put that on my own website but never did. Maybe one day when I have more time.

For some simulations I did, uploading the sourcecode and the various part so that my results can be replicated on the same page as the paper would be great - but it can get big (like in GB) and I'm not sure it would be cost effective for you to do that.

I'd even like to upload a VM with all the tools setup and ready (free software only so I'm fine) and the queries making my results as batch files along with other premade queries, but that would be even worse - the overhead of a distribution is big.

Yet making results more reproductible would be a great goal.

Good luck with your project.
I'll say it again: Internet drama that's designed to drive hits to two social media sites and is devoid of any technical discussion - the reality television of the Internet.

Keep this garbage off HN.
Did the satellite self-destruct or something? The article seems to imply the rocket and payload reached its first goal orbit of 202 miles (to deliver another separate payload to the ISS).

At that altitude, while short of the 466 miles desired, it still should have taken months or years for the orbit to decay and re-enter the atmosphere!
Fraud, mostly.
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Yeah, it's just a framework for writing almost arbitrary types of applications in. What could possibly be so hard about that?
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Read carefully. "[People today]..."

Things have changed since 1983. Back then people did know the difference. It was stilll an analog world and only the very beginning of digital recording.

People today _don't_ know the difference because the first thing they hear is lossy, loud digital, not acetate, vinyl or cassette. But if they were raised on analog, you can bet they would hear the difference.
Hot damn I love when companies open source their code!

If its not a core competency or a competitive advantage, open it up and see if the community will help you maintain and advance it.
It's important people realize that a lot of payment providers don't like accepting payments up front for something that does not yet exist. Paypal for instance clearly states that's not allowed.

While I think it's great that crowdfunding is very accessible as of lately, I think there's a risk here of people half assing things, not following through on their end with the product development, and it going south really quickly.
I love google, but let's be honest-- it's about time.
1: http://jsfiddle.net/CSyUb/
I don't really understand what you're implication is. The poster I was responding to used the word aggressive to describe how men are "supposed" to seek raises and otherwise negotiate in the workplace, and said that women often didn't act that way.

You can replace the word aggressive with assertive if you think it describes the style of negotiation better, but that has nothing to do with my point.
loved your book by the way
Lots of Reddit fans flagging these articles... no surprise. A huge Reddit story revolving around online anonymity is certainly newsworthy. Great article. Certainly more newsworthy than sodas + teeth.
The primary objective was to reach the ISS, which it did successfully. From there, it was to launch the satellite. From the article:

> To ensure the station's safety, the agreement with NASA prohibited Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX as the privately-held California-based company is known, from restarting the rocket's second stage - needed to deliver Orbcomm's satellite to its proper orbit - if there was not at least a 99 percent chance that the rocket had enough fuel to complete the burn, said SpaceX spokeswoman Katherine Nelson.

Because there was less than a 99% chance of success, SpaceX followed procedures and did not attempt to launch the satellite.
Altitude alone isn't enough for orbit - it also needs sufficient velocity in the right direction, which presumably it didn't have.

A stationary object placed 466 miles above the earth would just fall down.
Originally from Toronto myself. Part of a startup called Insight (YC). We're based in Palo Alto. Happy to grab a coffee when you guys are here.
Oh yeah! Good ol' C-x M-c M-beads...

(... http://xkcd.com/378/ )
All of those posts and no mention of strtol(), which is probably what's making this base-swapping behavior actually work? Oh well.

$ ping 0x7f.0x0.0x0.0x1
PING 0x7f.0x0.0x0.0x1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
A orbit raising maneuver was always necessary to get the satellite to its target. Relevant sections:

> "Orbcomm had planned on reaching an altitude of 466 miles above Earth..."

> "Due to the engine shutdown, the Falcon 9 used slightly more fuel and oxygen to reach Dragon's intended 202 mile- (325-km) high orbit. Over the next 2.5 days, Dragon flew itself to the station's orbit 250 miles above Earth. It reached the $100 billion outpost, a project of 15 countries, on Wednesday."

Initial Dragon Orbit: 202 miles above Earth

ISS: 250 miles above Earth

Desired Satellite Location: 466 miles above Earth

There was only a 95% chance of the rocket reaching the location 466 miles above Earth (due to the reduced fuel reserves), so they didn't perform the burn, because NASA's contract with them forbade it (had to be >=99% chance of success).
I find it interesting that you used a throwaway even though you didn't mention anything that could be construed as offensive.

I guess you're a direct competitor to optimizely and I know of only one other direct competitor lurking these forums so hey :)
Failure is a part of every human activity worth pursuing. What we do when we fail is what defines us. Looking at the big picture, this mission was nothing but a success. Unless I am wrong, this is the first privately built rocket to deliver cargo to the Space Station. Right? And they achieved this while loosing one engine. High five!

It sounds like everyone involved with the Satellite portion of the mission knew full-well what the risks were and that they had no priority over the main mission. Insurance covered it. Done deal. All is well.

SpaceX can only get better from here. Kudos.
I love what Lockitron did. I'm sure the dismay of getting rejected by Kickstarter drove them to open-source their work, and they did a great job. They put a lot more work into open-sourcing their efforts than I've seen from many (any?) start-ups. It feels very polished.

Sucks for Kickstarter though, they picked the wrong couple of folks to reject and now the barrier to just rolling your own has become infintely lower. If you're launching a decent-size product Kickstarter is starting to look worse and worse

Why even try to get them to accept you, having to worry about getting the rug pulled out from under your project just a couple hours before you reach the funding deadline to then pay a 8-10% fee? (5% + 3-5% to Amazon)

I'm sure the folks at Kickstarter HQ are worried about this development, maybe their rigid product vision will wind up biting them in the ass.
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If you don't have enough capital to take a few hits, don't start any kind of insurance company. If you do have the money, though, it should be the same basic principle as any other insurance company: calculate the risk as best you can, and charge accordingly so that the expected value of your profit is as positive as the market will bear.
Start (New idea or approach) + Up (Scalable) = Startup (A scalable new idea or approach)

A new idea or approach that's not scalable would not be a startup (e.g. my uncle's underwater bar for scuba divers in Barbados). And a scalable idea or approach that's not new would not be a startup (e.g. another Coke/Pepsi clone).
Peter Norvig may be an expert on scientific methodology, but when it comes to comedy he's not the first source I would turn to. Steve Martin, an authority in the field, said "Comedy is not pretty"[1] and that clearly overrides Norvig in the matter of this article.

George Carlin makes many excellent points on the subject of science, but most relevant here is when he raises the question of which party is really the subject of an experiment[2].

"The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated." -George Carlin

Perhaps the real study here is to test how many people will take a joke a little too seriously just because it looks like a scientific paper.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_Is_Not_Pretty!

[2] http://todayinsci.com/C/Carlin_George/CarlinGeorge-Quotation...
I really wish things like this would get posted sooner than a week before the event.

I'm a 3 hour drive from both SV and LA, which is cool because I can hit hackathons in either area. But it takes a little planning (and some pleading with the wife).

IMO there's no decent list of hackathons (and no, I don't really like Lanyrd).
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At the moment, we're still in the early stages of development for supporting most game engines, but Unity3D is definitely on the roadmap.

Thanks for the sign up! If there's other support / suggestions you might have, feel free to email me at darrel@soragora.com. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks for these ideas. We host whatever version the user uploads; sometimes that is a .doc or latex file, but mostly it's a pdf.

Thanks for your perspective on data-sharing - interesting ideas.
I own aidsforhearing.com a shitty amazon store selling hearing aids, go figure it's made nothing.

ideas?
A modern day programmer worrying about sorting algorithms is like a golfer worrying about how the metal was forged in his golf club.

Only freshman Computer Science students waffle about such things because they just learned about it, whereas experience programmers are working at higher levels of abstraction.
I think he's confusing the web and the internet.

AIM, email, USENET etc. are not really web. Unless you have web clients.
Title should be: SpaceX Falcon9 manages to reach its destination despite the engine failure, delivers a pack of home made ice cream.
This looks interesting. Will the problem pitches be put online? I used to work in the health insurance industry so I am interested in seeing what problems they want solved.
Honestly, I felt the exact same way. This is excellent.
Yup. The recent "OMG it's a tablet that can make calls!" movement in phones is pretty silly, and seems a case of the phone manufacturers blindly following a trend without a whole lot of thought. Apple, to its credit, clearly did think about the repercussions of a larger screen size.

I wouldn't mind so much if only some phones were giant ones, but the last time I looked, there were like 30 different "giganto-phone" models, and only a few older models still left with more reasonable screen sizes. I'm in Japan, and there are a lot of phone manufacturers, but unfortunately they tend to move as a herd (you get a lot of variation in the details, but the overall form-factors tend to be pretty consistent amongst them). :(

Indeed, it's Apple's thoughtfulness on very this matter that have made me think about buying an iphone for the first time. I want a phone that (1) I can use with one hand, (2) fits in my pocket, and (3) weighs very little. Although the original iphone seemed kinda chunky compared to other phones at the time, now even the larger iphone5 is looking very svelte compared to the competition! Unfortunately other iphone5 issues, like the whole maps thing and the camera problems, have put a bit of a damper on that idea...

Wozniak's a good guy, but you go to him for crazy hacks that drastically reduce your chip count, not form-factor and usability advice...
I don't trust *Terms Apply and hackathon appearing together in any context. Business guys always want to capitalize on creatives' enthusiasm but end up triggering skepticism instead.
I don't go in for doing the same thing over and over like some Buddhists like to do.

It's just a timer, which I set for 3 to 5 minutes. When the timer reaches 0, (part of) a particular song plays. (And a record is made of the start and end times of the meditation session.)

In the rare case that I am doing something other than meditating when that song plays, I know I got so distracted that I did not even notice I got distracted -- which I take as a sign that I have an unusually pressing need for meditation that day.
Ask HN: what to do with shitty keyword rich domains?
Sitting on a bunch of these from when I was a starry eyed youth. I've had a few offers on them, but blah. Nothing to write home about.

A good market place?
A decent way to monetize?
This also works with Drupal. Gotta love Cloudflare.
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People still bitch about ORMs in 2012? Jesus.
https://speakerdeck.com/u/kennethreitz/p/flasky-goodness
I never understood why this company couldn't make do with the orbit spacex left it in?
In the words of the great philosopher, Homer-- "Doh!",
Right. They were hoping the F9 upper stage would do that orbit raising for them (the non-risky version). The risky part was trying to do an orbit raising with the satellite's onboard fuel, which was the only option after the F9 lost an engine.

The expected outcome (F9 upper stage doing the raising) was considered non-risky, and I'm sure that's the premise the insurance company was operating under when they agreed to insure the satellite.
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It's unclear to me what is the risk to ISS. Secondary payload was on the much lower orbit, and even if it was on the same orbital plane, they could just slightly change orbit plane, and try to raise the obit with any chance of success entirely safe for ISS.
How to Write a Female Character (for Film)
I take it you have a fairly negative opinion of Flash. That's okay by me, since I do too. Anyway, would you ever work on that project? I sure wouldn't, because it would look like a horrible black mark on my resume. Some projects are bad enough to where it leaves a stink on the people who touch it.

Once a project gets to that point, who can you hire to work on it? I'm guessing you're not going to get the best and the brightest. So, you get whoever's left. I think you can see where this is going.

I call this cycle "The Bozo Loop".
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Kickstarter brings a comments section that is not controlled by the project creators. That's extremely important. You want a degree of scrutiny from backers that are asking the tough questions.
The Lockitron model dispenses with that important distinction.
EDIT : REPLY to the comment below. No, it's not. 1- you can always back with 1 $, comment, remove your pledge.2- you can back (conditionally) in good faith, ask questions lingering in your mind, decide to rescind your support if the answers do not prove satisfactory.
Is Apple losing its ethical way these days? I suppose it wasn't perfect under Jobs of course, but this example plus the unlicensed use of the Swiss clock design -- at best this is very sloppy.

More cynically, they really hid the way to turn off the advertising tracking in iOS, as has been reported elsewhere. I can't believe one has to go into General-->About to find the setting rather than under Privacy! Shameful.
You only know of? I don't have any skin in the game, but there are plenty of competitors in this space. Reducing a criticism to the one HN frequenter you're aware of seems, well premature and unfounded.
Maybe. The launch manifest lists "ORBCOMM - Multiple Flights" between 2012 and 2014. Their insurance will probably go down if their sats are the primary payload.
On the discussion on sexism in the tech industry
It was really focused in on PG's essays vs all essays written around defining a startup.
> I simply checked how long time it took for reading my article, writing and submitting a comment. Less than 10 seconds = block with a friendly message

Some of the bots simulate mouse movements, some of them even inject letters/words into textarea elements as if someone is typing. It's not that hard to make it look like someone is correcting typos.
How about Kickstarter as a service [1] (forked off Selfstarter or similar code) itself? They could especially target Kickstarter rejects.

1. Useful for those who cannot (or are too lazy to) code - instant setup.

2. Cut out the middle man and save on the 5% (or $X) fee. Then again, you will still be paying a bit for the service.

Thoughts?

[1] Transparency which means you are responsible for the project and the provider has no legal obligation whatsoever.
Only backers can comment on kick starters, so the comment section on kickstarter is pretty useless anyways.
I want to respectfully disagree, but I'm afraid there's no truly respectful way to call your statement what it is: naïve and dangerous.

Based on the current composition of the Supreme Court, replacing a single judge could have dramatic, fairly immediate, and nearly irreversible real-world consequences to the citizens of this country. Whether you agree with those consequences or not, you'd be hard-pressed to argue that the stakes aren't high.
It's probably mostly a theoretical risk. On the other hand, I recall a flight to Mir that ended up slamming into the station. And NASA doesn't have any reason to accept a risk that doesn't benefit its operations.
The launch would be to an orbit that would decay in a short-ish time (perhaps fairly elliptical?), since SpaceX wouldn't want to leave the second stage up there long term as yet another large piece of space debris.

Talking from the knowledge of a hobbyist here though, rather than an expert on such matters, so probably wrong on some counts.
It basically means you have to chat with the Band of Angels and Originate.

For example, the Band's prize is in the form of seed funding. How exactly that looks might change based on the team.

For Originate it includes:
- the award is for in-kind investment of Originate services and not convertible to cash
- non-transferable
- resources will be assigned at Orignate's sole discretion
- work will be delivered from an Originate office

You don't have to accept any prizes that are given, it's just things we've put together to solve problems that arise when trying to take a company off the ground. I don't expect you to trust me, but I've been extremely involved with the Hacker Dojo, run a hacker house, and routinely fight against anything that takes advantage of hackers. I hope that helps
Absent a large rise in the earnings of engineers relative to lawyers the skills demanded by both professions are such that the average lawyer will always bemore verbally facile than the average engineer. Whoever has better facility with words has better social skills, on average. So lawyers have higher social skills.

Your thought experiment in which companies discriminate against men in hiring might work. It would need to be forced upob all participants in a field/economic sector because if it was voluntary those who were not discriminating would be hiring from a superior talent pool. They'd win, on average. I thonk it would be unfair to women who could have made it on their own merits too, but hey.
> Is it good to make decisions about your future while 60% of your brainpower is focused on cleaning dishes?

Brain doesn't work like that. You can actually do stuff in parallel without performance penalty as long as the tasks you are doing use different types of mental resources. I find it easy to wash dishes well while simultaneously planning my future / thinking about whatever. Quite often the thinking I do while washing dishes or in the shower is much better in quality than the thinking at my desk or near the whiteboard.
Actually that's just decrementing and comparing to 0:
while((i--) > 0)
> Among the Dragon's cargo was a freezer that will be used to store scientific samples. For the ride up, SpaceX stashed chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream inside.

Just awesome.

The mission was a success. The satellite maker's loss was covered with insurance money, the ISS stays up in the sky, engine-out capability proven, subsequent launch contracts remain in place from both NASA/the satellite maker - and the ISS astronauts get home-made chocolate ice cream! Win-win-win.

The only entity that got screwed was the insurance company, but that was a risk they were willing to take and were duly paid for doing so.
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Garrett was my partner in crime for the second Hacker Fair at Hacker Dojo, and he's my cofounder for the hacker house we run. He's been a great volunteer at the Hacker Dojo as well. Not sure if my word counts for much, but he's an honest and trustworthy dude.